Definitions for bonnets

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bonnets bon·net

Spelling: [bon-it]

IPA: /ˈbɒn ɪt/

Bonnets is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 154 anagrams from letters in bonnets (bennost).

Definitions for bonnets

noun

1. a hat, usually tying under the chin and often framing the face, formerly much worn by women but now worn mostly by children.
2. Informal. any hat worn by women.
3. Chiefly Scot. a man's or boy's cap.
4. a bonnetlike headdress:
5. any of various hoods, covers, or protective devices.
6. a cowl, hood, or wind cap for a fireplace or chimney, to stabilize the draft.
7. the part of a valve casing through which the stem passes and that forms a guide and seal for the stem.
8. a chamber at the top of a hot-air furnace from which the leaders emerge.
9. Chiefly British. an automobile hood.
10. Nautical. a supplementary piece of canvas laced to the foot of a fore-and-aft sail, especially a jib, in light winds.
11. Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1889–1973, French statesman.

verb (used with object)

1. to put a bonnet on.

Origin of bonnets

1375-1425; late Middle English bonet Middle French; Old French bonet material from which hats are made, perhaps Old Low Franconian *bunni something bound (Germanic *bund-, noun derivative of

Examples for bonnets

In this slim ode to books, the author muses on the life of a serious reader—with bonnet himself being the ultimate example.

Only to my own room, to put on my bonnet; the carriage will be here in a few minutes.

The normal reaction of a publisher when faced with an author with a bee in his bonnet is to grab the check and run.

I always had this sort of bee in my bonnet about doing my own thing.

Phantoms On the Bookshelves by Jacques bonnet bonnet owns more than 40,000 books.

Her shawl was dragged to one side, and her bonnet sat rakishly.

An' she 'lowed she didn't want no bonnet, but would like to change her pinny.

While we were discussing the advisability of my departure Geneviève reappeared in the doorway without her bonnet.

Remember, Dirk had never but twice seen his sister in a bonnet.

Mrs. Roberts recognized the bonnet and cape with a smile of satisfaction.